Urgh

[lishesquex]

Part of my evening was spent sweaty and hot, rolling around on the floor with 2 guys and 2 girls. No, I did not attend an orgy (get your minds outta the gutter :p) It was karate. An impromptu session of wrestling, actually. Today's warm up also included 4 rounds of light contact sparring including twenty push ups on your fingertips in between each round. And that was just the warm up. We had half (more like one third) of the gradings afterwards, with 5 black belts overseeing it. Very scary. And there were so many white belts that we had to do our katas in groups of two or three, and my group was so crap! Omg. It was so nerve wracking that I started off doing the wrong kata, which was a bad start, and totally embarrassing. But then we had to do it again and again and again and again because the guy kept punching too high, and the other girl didn't keep her shoulders straight. I think we ended up doing it like ten times. And after each time they would point out what was wrong, but they never addressed it directly to me... only the other guy and the girl, so I never knew if I was doing it right or wrong. And after each time they would shake their heads and mutter at each other and go "okay, one last time" as if if we didn't get it perfect the next time we would fail! Argh. But we didn't. And at the end, one of the black belts said to me that I did everything correctly but I just needed to punch harder, so I needn't have really worried at all, really. >.o Psychological torture, I tell you.

And now I'm exhausted and very sore, so off to bed it is. *splat*

*sits up*

By the way, my internet is really screwed at the moment, and I don't have the time to fix it. So, people who I chat to semi-regularly, don't feel ignored... it's just that chatting is almost impossible at the moment because I get disconnected every couple of minutes. Grrr.

Oh, one other thing. Did anybody else read in the paper that they might have found Boadicea's bones under a McDonalds in Britain? Pretty cool huh?